Brad Spencer <brad%anduin.eldar.org@localhost> writes: > What is referred to here is a specific ZFS idea and should not be > confused with any sort of global notion. Specifically, ZFS, by default > and in common use, does not use anything like a /etc/fstab or > /etc/vfstab to specify where the filesets get mounted. It also does not > usually use the usual mount command either to mount them, although that > would work in Solaris if I remember correctly (at least in some cases). > What happens is that the mount point is specified in the fileset meta > data and "zfs mount ...." takes care of getting it mounted. If you > wanted to use /etc/fstab or /etc/vfstab with ZFS you need to mark the > mountpoint in the fileset as being legacy, then you could fill in your > /etc/... files as you wanted. This, of course, strongly suggests that > Sun was going to make all of the other filesystems except ZFS second > class, but Sun fell apart before that really progressed to anything > final and Oracle never really ran to that conclusion either. No one is Somehow I am not shocked that this usage (by Sun) had that lurking. > at all suggesting that any filesystem become second class in the NetBSD > realization of ZFS. > > So the term legacy when speaking of ZFS is used to refer to a filesystem > that uses whatever /etc/... files you use and uses the usual mount > command. Thanks, and Taylor also sent me a clue privately. A superceding comment by me crossed in the mail.
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